Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
TIE Bank of Lakin has assigned and

A NOTION for an alternative writ of man
! damus was made in the Supreme Court the
other day by the attorney for Robert Craw-
| ford, q colored resident of Fort Scott, to
| compel the board of education OF the city
! Of Fort Scott and D. Bemis, superintepd-
| ent Of the public schools Of that city, 20 AL
| NIT Buford Crawford, q son of the petl-
toner, as a pupil of the Wilson street
school The writ was granted By Judge
| Valentine, returnable December Is.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished. Eatonville, Cowley County. Will
liam n. Smith, postmaster; Idenbro, La
bette County, Thomas 7. Iden. postmaster:
Named changed, Leny, Sumner County, to
Milton. Discontinued, Belfast, Gray
County; Brooklyn, Barton County; Lone
Walnut, Lincoln County; Prosper, Ellis
worth County; Sweet Home, Smith
County.
The striking miners OF the Leavenworth
Coal Company returned to work the other
morning, the company having granted the
raise asked for, and also allowing the men
to have check weigher. The men gained
oil they sought, and the company seemed
willing to grant it.
THE annual report Of the Southern Kan
sas Railway Company was filed recently
with the State Board Of Railroad Commits
sioners. The total earnings for the year
are shown to have been s. 357. 955. IS; the
operating expenses were 81. 326, 3l7l3. The
construction account for the year amounted
to q, O23, 500. 80.
PENSIONS were allowed the following
Kansans on the 18th: James II. Dole, Of
Emporia; Charles A. Stinc, of Douglas ;
Jehial r. Smith, of Kirwin; Robert n.
Farnsworth, Of Winfield; Andrew j. Man
ly, of Dodge City; David NJ. Howell, Of
Mulvaue: Charles Carman, of Rock; James
H. Lawson, of Elgin; Robert White, of
Huron; Dennis Kenny, Of Independence
Hugh c. Vandever, of Oxford; Napoleon b.
Sims, of Klngman, and George j. Peace, OF
Burlington.
A SAD accident was recently reported
from the vicinity Of Scott City. 1t was that
a two-year-old child of F. L. Hithmeyer,
living near that town, fell into a well tube
which Is 10 feet deep. For eighty feet the
pipe is one foot in diameter, aud then 1t
contracts to eight inches. The child slid
down eighty feet anu lodged. The neigh
bors were notified, but were not successful
in recovering the child by fishing. They
commenced digging down along the tube,
and it would take at least twenty-four
hours for willing and Industrious hands to
cries could be plainly heard.
f,.,IRIE fires have done considerable
damage in kearney County recently. One
farmer had 125 tons of hay ana 100 acres OF
pasture destroyed and another lost 800 tons
of hay.
THE State Prohibition Central Committee
will meet in Representative Hall, Topeka,
December ID and II, to make plans for tho
campaign of 1883.
ALATE fire at Topeka badly damaged the
residence of Councilman Lull. The house
cost $1,000 and there was an insurance Of
$1,000 on the property.
THERE are 80 Lutheran church organize
tions in Kansas, with an aggregate men,
bership of 3,0S2.
TIE people of Wyandotte, Kansas City
Kan, Armstrong and Armouriale have Of
late been much worked up over the matter
of free mail delivery. Wyandotte proper
has free mail delivery, but not so with the
other members of the consolidated city.
The trouble seems to be over the change Of
name by which the new city became Kan
sas City. Kan. Wyandotte, Armstrong and
Armourdale each has post-office and old
Kansas City is supplied from Kansas Oily,
Mo. By this means the new city Of Kansas
City, Kan, is supplied with mail from
four different post-offiees The postal au-
thorties have finally taken hold Of the
matter.
Mrs. J. W. MURPHY, in recently lighting
her gasoline stove at her home in Arkan-
sas City, turned on TOO much gasoline and
when she touched a match to the burner
an explosion took place. The flames caught
Aer dress and before assistance reached
her she was badly burned.
FIRE in Vogel Bros.'s box factory at
Leavenworth the other night resulted in a
damage to the stock Of about 81, 900 and on
the building of S1.OOO. Partial insurance
on the stock; full insurance on the build
ing.
On the evening OF the Goth Messrs.
O'Connor and Esmond, members OF the
British Parliament. addressed a large audi
encc at Topeka in behalf of home rule in
Ireland. A large sum was subscribed for
the relief fund.
The suit of J. B. Watkins against the
National Bank Of Lawrence for all in juno
ton restraining the bank from loaning
money to the Western Farm Mortgage
Company was withdrawn by plaintiff when
it came up for trial in the district court Of
Douglas County the other day.
A SINGULAR problem has arisen in the
district court of Wyandotte County The
extraordinary number OF jurymen required
in the train wrecker cases exhausted the
entire list of nine hundred regular jurors
whose names were placed in the jury box
at the beginning of the year. Tue result
is that the box is empty, and two terms OF
court must sit before another list can be
prepared. This is the first time in the his
tory of the State that the jury list of any
district court has been exhausted, and the
question presented was, how might law
full jury be impaneled!
AT the late Irish home rule meeting at
Leavenworth addressed by O'Connor and
Esmonde, members of Parliament, a co!lec-
ton realized LOCO
DANFoRD, the well-known Kansas bank
wrecker, is said to be plying his vocation
in several other States. He is reported to
be worth s250O0O, all the profits Of his pc
culiar method of banking.
A MAN who claimed to be a heavy owner
of Kansas City real estate was recently
fined in the Leavenworth police court for
vagrancy.
THE dog census of Shawnee County shows
the canine population to be 1896, of these
1,222 yelp in the city of Topeka.
PATENTs recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: Cable grip, Leon d. Libbey, of
Wyandotte; signal for telephone instru-
meuts, John NJ. Baker, of Paola; force
pump. Hiram Q. Hood, of Wellington: mu-
sic leaf turner; John T. Darlington, Of Clay
Center: device for spooling fence wire,
Homar Martin, of Bloomington.
LEAvENwoRTH has Pleasant Hour Club.
IT IS stated that the coal mine at the pen
itentiary has lately been hosting 10000
bushels of coal daily, and the orders on
hand were sufficient to keep things moving
for thirty days. without reference to the
new orders which were received daily.